The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.